Nearly three years after launching its first employee ten-strike, the Fight for 15 was deriving the fruits of its proletariat on Tuesday.

The union-backed safarus aimed at boosting the minimum wage viewed what organizers described as its largest mass demonstration yet, with fast-food and other service-sector works were participating in ten-strikes and demonstrates in tallies of metropolis around the country. Some of these demonstrates were no doubt small-time, but others, in municipalities like New York, San Francisco and Pittsburgh, had huge turnouts.

The expeditions startling political success became clear on Tuesday, if it wasnt already. Hillary Clinton, the leading candidate for the Democratic nomination, offered a message of encouragement immediately to the strikers, while another nominee, Sen. Bernie Sanders( I-Vt .), spoke to impressing workers outside the U.S. Capitol. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio( D) connected craftsmen at a show in Brooklyn. And both the town of Pittsburgh and the territory of New York announced brand-new programmes centered on a $15 compensation floor.

In Pittsburgh, Mayor Bill Peduto( D) announced that city employees and contract employees would be paid at least $ 15 per hour by 2021, and in New York, the office of Gov. Andrew Cuomo( D) said all regime hires would be making $15 by the end of 2018.

In a statement, the Fight for 15 described workers paid less than $15 an hour as a voting faction that can no longer be ignored.

“I think that these employees have shown in the past two years that they are a potent political force-out. They have been changing the dialogue, ” Mary Kay Henry, chairman of the Service Employees International Union, told The Huffington Post. “City parliaments and states have raised minimum wages as a result of this movement. Its because of the heroism of individual laborers to strike and to be joined by other workers all across the service sector.”

SEIU is the roughly 2-million-member labor union thats been money the Fight for 15 safarus. Three years in, it is still no clearer where exactly the campaign is foreman, or how it plans to become a sustainable prototype for proletariat activism. For all its success in embarrassing low-wage employers like McDonalds and promoting local compensation floorings, awareness-raising campaigns and its ten-strikes have not have all contributed to more dues-paying union members to financially support the lawsuit. Meanwhile, SEIU has swarmed millions of dollars into the effort.

Yet while its endgame persists murky, the campaigns thriving political muscle is obvious. Harmonizing to Henry, the campaign aims to expand the movement and take it to the ballot box. Tuesdays complains were scheduled one year ahead of the 2016 elections, and the campaign exhausted a voter agenda, focused on a $15 minimum wage and uniting recognition, which it hopes to hold candidates to. Organizers said the day would culminate with a demonstrate outside the GOP presidential debate Tuesday night in Milwaukee.

Whether its fast food, retail, child care were all being underpaid for our services.Letasha Irby

One of the campaigns biggest program wins to date was a July decision by New York regulators to defined a $15 minimum wage specific for fast-food employees. That pace is gradually being phased in throughout the country, after an guild issued by the states wage timber. Meanwhile, Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles are all raising their municipality minimum wages to $15 in the coming years.

In Oakland on Tuesday morning, approximately 50 fast-food employees, league organizers and followers flooded a McDonalds, interrupting the hind end of the breakfast race. Three laborers behind the counter stepped off the job to join them. The gang, chanting in English and Spanish, temporarily forced the restaurants sector to stop sufficing food.

Fast-food employees at the declaration said theyd been deprived of overtime remunerate and werent able to use sick dates. One worker, Ernestina Sandoval, 35, whos worked for three years at a McDonalds, said her wage has only climbed from$ 8 to $9.60.

If I heard[ the owner] here, Id transform my back on him, just like hes switched his back on us, Sandoval told HuffPost. More goes into his pocket than ours. Still, he expects us to sacrifice.

Until now, the Fight for 15 campaign has focused primarily on manufactures where SEIU has been planning employees — fast food in particular, as well as child care and home care. But on Tuesday, employees affiliated with other organizations were taking part in the Fight for 15 demonstrations.

One of them, Letasha Irby, works at a factory in Selma, Alabama, that produces car seats and headrests for Hyundai cars. Its only the sort of manufacturing profession that Americans historically associate with solid, middle-class payments. Yet Irby says she gives merely $12 per hour after a decade of services that are at her plant.

Irby said that on Tuesday she made plans to drive to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, after her alter to meet a Fight for 15 assert. Irby is a supporter of the United Auto Workers, who have been trying to organize her plant in Selma and have so far not succeeded.

I have a whole lot in common with them, Irby, a 37 -year-old Alabama native and father of two, said of fast-food employees. Whether its fast food, retail, child care are always being underpaid for our services.

Another worker, Angela Simler, said she would be helping to host a Fight for 15 barbecue outside her target of the jobs, a T-Mobile call center in Wichita, Kansas. Simler subsidizes a campaign by the Communications Workers of America to unionize her T-Mobile facility. She said she pays $12.43 per hour. As the mother of a 5-year-old and a 7-year-old, she said her payments dont cut it, and every month presents wrenching decisions over which proposals to money and which to set aside. T-Mobile did not respond to a request for comment.

Whether its fast food, Walmart, child care, T-Mobile, all these people are paid too little to support their families, said Simler, 33. The payments have remained sluggish for too long.

Berta Chacon took part in a demonstrate in New York City on Tuesday. Chacon is not a fast-food laborer — shes employed at a beauty parlour in the city. But she, extremely, told me that she faces the same financial fights as fast-food workers.

Our salaries are very low, Chacon said in Spanish. We are fighting for $15 an hour in order to survive in this city.